Re: CPU-Replacement for die 264 series?

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:40:53 -0500
Message-ID: <4F6E0725.7050100@jbrain.com>
On 3/24/2012 10:43 AM, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
>
> I did a bit of side by side comparision (see below). The only signal I 
> have a bit of a problem with is how 'Gate In' influences R/_W:
>
> From the TED system manual:
>
> R/_W is latched by the Gate In line to synchronize between a DRAM 
> memory cycle and the processor clock cycle. If AEC is low when Gate In 
> makes a low to high transition, the R/_W line will go to a high 
> impedance state until the next transition of Gate In and AEC is high 
> prior to the transition.
>
> It shouldn't be difficult to make that work, but so far I haven't been 
> able to come up with a small and simple circuit for it. It would be 
> nice if 2 TTL chips were enough.
I think life would be simpler with a small GAL/CPLD and a 6502.  As much 
as there are plenty of 6510s around in 64s, I hate to rob them out of 
units that might be fixable.

A CPLD at least would be able to provide 8 bits of IO and the GATE_IN 
functionality.

Jim

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